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Continuing process of secularization in many European countries resulted in desertion of religious buildings and their complexes. It is crucial to find the ways to adapt them to new uses in order to avoid the deterioration of valuable buildings and the negative impact on the visual identity of the city, thus ensuring the funding restoration, preservation and maintenance of cultural values. The main aim of this article is to analyse the complex architecturel history of former Dominican Monastery in Vilnius. In order to fully reveal the problems of this particular case, the historical and architectural research was done, focusing on the historical monasteries adaptation problem. Adapting to another function in this article is treated more as the use of a whole range of all possible measures of natural building life (both physically and as loci sacri), rather than just functional changes of the particular building. As a functional scheme of the specific monastery directly influences the re-use solutions, the characteristics of a spatial and functional structure of the monastery and church complex were determined. In addition to a physical intervention, the process of adapting of the existing architectural building space and the spirit of the place (loci sacri) is very important as well as the perception of integrity of the building and in some cases its restitution. At the end of the article main guidelines for the specific project of re-use of the monastery and church complex are proposed. |
